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RcppZiggurat

'Rcpp' Integration of Different "Ziggurat" Normal RNG Implementations

v0.1.8 · Mar 30, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)
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Description

The Ziggurat generator for normally distributed random numbers, originally proposed by Marsaglia and Tsang (2000, <doi:10.18637/jss.v005.i08>) has been improved upon a few times starting with Leong et al (2005, <doi:10.18637/jss.v012.i07>). This package provides an aggregation in order to compare different implementations in order to provide a 'faster but good enough' alternative for use with R and C++ code. See the 'zigg' package for a lighter implementation for much easier use in other packages.

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Reverse Dependencies (5)

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dsp dyads

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp dsp dyads fido SuppDists benchmarkme RcppZiggurat

Version History

new 0.1.8 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.1.8 ← 0.1.7 diff Mar 29, 2025
updated 0.1.7 ← 0.1.6 diff Mar 21, 2025
updated 0.1.6 ← 0.1.5 diff Oct 19, 2020
updated 0.1.5 ← 0.1.4 diff Jun 9, 2018
updated 0.1.4 ← 0.1.3 diff Sep 26, 2017
updated 0.1.3 ← 0.1.2 diff Jul 25, 2015
updated 0.1.2 ← 0.1.1 diff Jan 25, 2014
updated 0.1.1 ← 0.1.0 diff Dec 22, 2013
updated 0.1.0 ← 0.0.1 diff Dec 20, 2013
new 0.0.1 Oct 5, 2013